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- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 day ago:
Those that write code for 3D graphics get paid a lot. That’s why most companies nowadays use middleware like UE5…
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 days ago:
Microslop
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 days ago:
You can get a 5900HS G14 today for 800€
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 6 days ago:
The Ryzen 9 270 is what’s currently in the G14
That’s for the cheaper GA403U models, the GA403W models have the 370.
Apple compared the M4 with the M1 because the M3 beats the M4 in several scenarios, especially in comparable SKUs where the M4 downgrades memory bandwidth. Now, of course, I could be a fanboy and preach that it’s because the M1 is so good.
I think you need this since you start resorting to ad hominem.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 6 days ago:
FYI, Ryzen 9 270 is last gen, anyways:
Here’s a nice link to the passmark forum. You can clearly see a deranged Apple fanboy that has difficulty grasping anecdote is not the singular of data.
Back on topic:
The M4 air lets you run console and a bunch of daily tasks well enough, however, it really isn’t a work machine. It’s an iPad pro with a keyboard. Apple has troves of data on what the people who buy their HW do so they adapt fixed function for HW acceleration as needed. The single threaded benches are also wildly misleading as if you try to edit music on an Air you’ll be pulling your hair out due to latency on the “best single threaded portable CPU” due to thermal constraints (and yes, I know RTINGS recommends Apple for music production, sadly, they don’t really test latency propper, especially for music production). Run Izotope Ozone 10 with some oversampling and curse your life for going with Apple. Oh, and if you want to do anything remotely useful, get ready to shell out some extra money for RAM and storage that brings the price of the air up to par with the G14…
Apple laptops are Veblen goods, the battery life is great, when using popular software it works well (Adobe 🤮🤮🤢🤮🤮) but even Apple finds the M4 so underwhelming it had to compare it to the M1 instead of M3.
Given its age, the 5900HS has no place being as competitve with the M4 10core as it is, and yet, here we are.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 6 days ago:
After 5y the 5900HS is still a compelling alternative to the M4.
If one would run a 2t cinebench vs 1t on the Apple silicon the 5900 would have competitive single core performance too. (Apple lacks SMT)
This is two nodes behind and with 2 cores less. If people stopped using geekbench for laptops and PCs, this stupid Apple narrative would go away. Apple makes great laptops but they aren’t the best and are arguably worse because they lock you into Apple’s commercial relationships with software providers. There’s HW acceleration for Adobe software but none for D’Assault software or Siemens software. Apple is the machine for the dilletante, and because most content creators are dilletantes, the message that passes is Apple centric. If Apple and Apple users were to evaporate, the world would carry on as usual, if linux machines would disappear overnight it would be utter chaos.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 6 days ago:
*Looks at a 5y old G14 that gives a modern m4 Air a run for its money.
Yeah, Imma call BS on that. Apple has a handful of product lines that share vertically integrated components that allows them the economies of scale to integrate great things like their glass trackpad in cheaper models like the air. That said, there are several premium laptops at the same price tags than Apple that are arguably a better choice than the Apple offerings, the aforementioned G14 among them, especially if one takes linux compatibility seriously.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 1 week ago:
If only there was a pervasive tool nowadays that is famously inaccurate, likes to hallucinate and frequently cites deprecated data… Something artificial that
slopcontent mill producing shitrags like the visual capitalist like to use… I can’t quite put my finger on it… - Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 1 week ago:
I see different figures for the list. The one in the infographic does not exist.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 1 week ago:
Funny you should say that, because I checked the source and they haven’t compiled the 2025 list. You know what would definitely halucinate one…
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 1 week ago:
Not just out of date, complete and utter fabrication.
TIL people eat shit from the “visual capitalist” and swallow it whole. I’d bet my right nut this image took 15min of AI “prompt engineering” and 30 of photoshop copy-paste. None of if is remotely reliable.
- Comment on Pizza styles 1 week ago:
Tahnk you for making my point. When I make goulash, I make goulash, that’s why the word exists.
- Comment on Pizza styles 1 week ago:
Usanians call food pizza the same way they call social democracy comunism or thin air, weapons of mass destruction. The entire country’s culture is based on bastardising things from the civilised world to the point they lose their original meaning.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 week ago:
Study? What more study is needed, gambling is virtual heroin for kids. Just fucking kill it. Everyone and their mother is OK with causing millions in unployment due to “AI” because it’s “progress” but to actually protect children we need to “study” even more! GTFO with that bullshit.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 1 week ago:
Like hispanic looking people! Those darned Han Chinese!!!
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we’re golden.
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 1 week ago:
This plot is complete BS, Deezer pays double than spotify.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 1 week ago:
suicidererollFTFY
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 1 week ago:
Is it a non-profit? No? It will enshitify.
- Comment on Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy 2 weeks ago:
no
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 2 weeks ago:
It’s by design.
The spread of the superhero (Übermenschen) to ubiquity in pop culture, especially Hollywood, the punishing and assumption of evil within destitute people, the indoctrination of children (pledge of allegiance et al), the selective curricula that largely keep the general education from showing the populace of the US that their country is more closely related to a self styled African dictatorship than a modern social democracy. Usanians frequently utter “it’s not personal, it’s business”. That is the hallmark of declining hegemon and roughly translates to “fuck you, got mine”.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
Haaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
I wish I could find the people on Reddit that called me a lunatic when I said subscription services always enshitify, NO MATTER WHAT. It’s a matter of when, not if.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
As opposed to the US, where they get free slaves from China AND the state.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
Time to buy an AM5 MOBO to upgrade in 2028 then.
- Comment on Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy 2 weeks ago:
The reading comprehension of people reading this news piece is unfathomably low.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 weeks ago:
Ycombinator is the Thiel funded Altman led cancer VC that originated the surveillance capitalism
neonazitechbro situation we have today. It spearheaded the death of US democracy. - Comment on How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data 3 weeks ago:
The US secret service agents were being tracked with Strava… Everyone is getting fucked by the unregulated collection and use of personal data. Shit, some idiots even voluntarily give it away.
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 3 weeks ago:
“I’m not a POS, I’m neurodivergent…”
Riiiiiiiiight… 🤔
- Comment on Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue 3 weeks ago:
It’s worse than that. There are several cases of amazon censoring reviews of fake products while protecting scam companies.
- Comment on What is this colour? 3 weeks ago:
Light blue!